Tagged: Commentary

Walter Russell Mead will become a columnist for the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, writing the weekly Global View column on foreign affairs. He will start on Feb. 6. “Walter is a highly regarded journalist and historian of American...

Bloomberg plans to combine its Bloomberg Gadfly and Bloomberg View operations into one site called Bloomberg Opinion, according to tweets from executive editor Tim O’Brien. Hey Alex. No wings trimmed. We’re just consolidating all of...

Sam Tanenhaus of Esquire writes about how friction at The Wall Street Journal editorial board over Donald Trump has caused five staff members to leave. Tanenhaus writes, “Much has been written about friction between the Journal’s...

David Warsh of Economic Principals examines the recent history of The Wall Street Journal editorial page and offers up a successor to current editor Paul Gigot. Warsh writes, “Those who write the editorials seldom...

Business journalist Max Frumes, the founder of Quant Media, explores the efforts of the three big players in business journalism — Bloomberg, Dow Jones and Reuters — in terms of using computers to produce...

Gretchen Morgenson, who is leaving The New York Times for The Wall Street Journal, writes her last column for The Times and includes some responses she has received for skewering Wall Street. Morgenson writes,...

Joe Pompeo of Vanity Fair’s Hive writes about the growing tension between The Wall Street Journal’s news staffers and its editorial page. Pompeo writes, “Journal reporters, who have long accepted the paper’s role in the conservative-thought...

Forbes is shutting down its opinion section on its website as it leans further into its wide network of online contributors, reports Maxwell Tani of Business Insider. Tani reports, “In an internal email to staff obtained...